Patch notes

Update History

You will find the full Supatabs update history on this page.

#v0.8.0

Released: 21 Oct, 2022

🚀 New Features

  • Added save current tab button in the extension popup. This means you can now save single tabs without using a shortcut key
  • Added Supatabs context menu (right click on webpage). The context menu is the "right click menu" when you click on any website. It now includes a "Supatabs" context with the following options
    1. Open Supatabs
    2. Send the current tab to Supatabs
    3. Send all tabs to Supatabs
    4. Send all tabs to the left from the current tab to Supatabs
    5. Send all tabs to the right from the current tab to Supatabs

✨ Improvements

  • Improved tab collection speed

🛠️ Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug with Chrome tab group permissions.
  • Fixed a bug where some pages with special characters weren't collected by Supatabs

#v0.7.1

Changes and Additions

  • 💵 Added a donation button in the bottom left corner in case you want to support the development of Supatabs 🙂
  • 💬 Added a feedback button in the bottom left corner.

Send feature requests, or bug reports through there if possible.

As there isn't any tracking in place Supatabs is relying on user feedback, just in case a few bugs slip through.

  • ⚙ Added a toggle to turn on support for native Chrome tab groups in the Options page. Requires optional tab groups permission.
  • 🤝 Supatab groups can now be restored to Chrome groups. This will automatically save their title, color, and collapsed state.
  • 🔗 Single tabs now support all native link element actions. E.g. right click menu.
  • ⚓ The search bar is now aligned with the narrow tabs for a better look and feel.
  • 📁 Added an Export & Import page. You can import and export tab lists from Supatabs and OneTab.
  • ➡️ Changed the share button shape and text. It now opens the Import & Export page instead of downloading a backup directly.

Bug fixes

  • 🦟 Minor bug fixes

#v0.6.0

Changes and Additions

  • ⬇️ You can now collapse/expand each tab group individually. Toggle the chevrons on the right of the tab group context menu.

Reduce visual overhead

  • ➡️⬅️ Tab groups are displayed narrower. This can be reverted to the old UI in the settings.
  • 💾 You can now export a snapshot of the Supatabs content to a text file. This is the first step towards automated backups, which will be an optional addition coming in the future.

Bug fixes

  • 🐞 Prevent the default action on mouse down when clicking on tabs

#v0.5.2

Interface

  • 🔎 When searching through tabs, groups without search results will be hidden to de-clutter.

Functionality

  • 🔍 When searching through tabs, both tab title and its url will be considered in the search.
  • 🐞 Fixed a bug where middle-clicking (mousewheel/auxclick) on tabs wasn't registered on Microsoft Edge.

Settings

  • no changes

#v0.5.1

Interface

  • no changes

Functionality

  • 🔒 New tab groups will be inserted above the first unlocked group.
  • 🔒 When dragging tabs into or out of locked groups the state change will be rejected
  • 🐞 Minor bug fixes

Settings

  • no changes

#v0.5.0

Interface

  • 🔗 The sidebar now displays the current Supatabs version. It links to the current version docs (this page).
  • 🔒 The group context menu now contains a lock icon, which you can use to lock the group. You will notice some context actions and the group divider are grayed out when the group is locked.

Functionality

  • 🔒 Locking a group will always keep the tabs in the group, even when you restore them. It will also disable tab deletion, group deletion, swapping tabs with the active session and renaming the group.
  • 1️⃣ Saving a single tab with the Shortcut will save it to the first unlocked group. If there is no group available, it will be saved into a new group.
  • 🛞 Clicking a tab in Supatabs with the mousewheel (or any other auxiliary button), will restore the tab without deleting it from the group.

Settings

  • no changes

#v0.4.1

Interface

  • 💻 brighter shade of white for light mode

Functionality

  • 🐞 Fixed a bug preventing tab collection on Edge
  • 🐛 Fixed minor bugs
  • ⚡ Performance improvements

Settings

  • no changes

#v0.4.0

Interface

  • 🎯 The tab group input field will be focused by default when opening the Supatabs popup

Functionality

  • ⌨️ When typing into the tab group input field in the Supatabs popup hitting enter will now merge all tabs and focus Supatabs
  • 🐞 Minor bug fixes

Settings

  • 🔘 Added a toggle to the options page to pin/unpin the Supatabs app page (disabled by default)

#v0.3.0

Interface

  • Added an indicator 👀 in the top bar to display how much memory is currently being saved.

See your memory savings at a glance

  • Added a button to the sidebar to create empty tab groups 📑 to enable better tab organization

Create empty groups on the fly

Functionality

  • 💤 Added Auto-suspend to automatically free up memory when tabs are idle for a while. The suspended tabs will stay in your tab strip and reload automatically when you click them.

Free up memory with no extra effort

You can find a short guide on how to write the whitelist URLs here.

  • Added a shortcut key ⌨️ to quickly whitelist URLs from the auto-suspend mechanism. The key is not assigned initially. You will have to change this in the shortcut keys.

Whitelist a domain from auto-suspend in seconds

  • ✅ Added select/unselect all in the share group dialog

Settings

  • Added options to customize how and when the auto-suspend triggers:
    • Enable/disable auto-suspend
    • Enable/disable auto-suspend for audible tabs. This is good when you are listening to music from YouTube etc.
    • Set the timer in minutes how long a tab can be idle before unloading from memory
    • A whitelist of domains that will never be suspended

#Initial Release

Everything that was included in the initial Supatabs beta release.

Interface

  • Dark-/Lightmode support
  • Minimalistic app page to manage your tabs

Core functionality

  • Supatabs extension popup to merge tabs to left or right from active tab, or all tabs
  • Add an optional title to your new tab group in the extension popup
  • Shortcut keys to merge left, right, all tabs, or a single tab
  • Shortcut key to open/focus the Supatabs tab
  • Functionality to manage tabs
    • Swap active tabs with saved tab group
    • Restore saved tab group (suspended or instantly loaded)
    • Save active tabs to tab group
    • Delete tab group
    • Share multiple tabs as list from group via messenger or clipboard
    • Restore a single tab from saved tab group
    • Delete a single tab from saved tab group
    • Reorder single tabs in group or from group to group with drag and drop
    • Reorder tab groups with drag and drop
    • Save active session with one click (sidebar)
    • Delete all saved tabs (sidebar)
    • Name/rename your tab groups
  • Search through your tabs in the search bar at the top

Settings

Settings can be adjusted to your needs. Each setting is saved to your Google profile and synced to all devices.

You can modify the following settings:

  • Switch between dark- and lightmode
  • Enable/Disable remove active tabs on save
  • Enable/Disable suspend tabs on restore
  • Enable/Disable ignore pinned tabs
  • A hyperlink to the Google Chrome shortcut settings, where you can modify the key bindings to each Supatabs shortcut